Question

Does anyone know if Visual Studio 2005, 2008, or 2010 has an import suggestion feature like Eclipse does? Maybe I am blatantly overlooking it, but I love Eclipse’s auto-suggestions and particularly the import suggestion because I can’t for the life of me remember where every single class is located and I always have to resort to Google.

Here is a screenshot of what I am talking about in Eclipse:

The quick fix feature in general is really nice in my opinion, but the import feature I find most useful.

Answer 1

To extend the answer by sgtz, ReSharper provides several features related to handling unresolved references:

• Auto-importing namespaces is useful when you have an existing symbol that is not resolved due to a missing import directive. ReSharper suggests importing a type provided that at least one project in your solution has a corresponding assembly reference.
• Import symbol completion helps you complete non-imported types as you’re typing them in
• A recently added feature is Import types for pasted code: if you’re copy-pasting a piece of code, it will import all required types in one go as soon as you’ve pasted
• If an unresolved symbol is actually something you don’t mean to reference but instead you’d like to generate a declaration, use Create from usage